INGR vs. POST, FRPT, KLG, NYT, ARMK, DAR, CHWY, PPC, ELF, and COKE
Should you be buying Ingredion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingredion include Post (POST), Freshpet (FRPT), WK Kellogg (KLG), New York Times (NYT), Aramark (ARMK), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Chewy (CHWY), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), and Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Post (NYSE:POST) and Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
94.9% of Post shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Ingredion shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of Post shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ingredion shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Post currently has a consensus target price of $113.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.79%. Ingredion has a consensus target price of $126.67, suggesting a potential upside of 8.63%. Given Post's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ingredion is more favorable than Post.
Ingredion has a net margin of 7.88% compared to Ingredion's net margin of 4.38%. Post's return on equity of 18.57% beat Ingredion's return on equity.
In the previous week, Post had 86 more articles in the media than Ingredion. MarketBeat recorded 93 mentions for Post and 7 mentions for Ingredion. Post's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Ingredion's score of 0.04 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Post has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingredion has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Post received 45 more outperform votes than Ingredion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 57.01% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
Ingredion has higher revenue and earnings than Post. Ingredion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Post, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ingredion beats Post on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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